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The Ritual of Purification; Reunion. The work is the second part of an
evening-length ballet, yet to be staged; the first part is called Ulysses'
Raft, and it uses the same themes and structure. The composer first
wanted to tell this story as a dance piece while watching a televised per-
formance of Monteverdi's opera II Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. Harbison was
attracted to the scenes, which were to him "visually indelible" and "sceni-
cally extraordinary."- Achilles Loved Patroclus (1993). Choreogapher, Bill T. Jones. Music by John
Oswald. A solo dance. - The Bull Dancers (1963). Choreographer, Lawrence Gradus. Music by
Jacques Ibert (A Louisville Concerto). American Ballet Theatre Workshop.
Events in the bull arena leading up to Theseus' slaying of the Minotaur. - Judgment of Paris (1940). Choreographer, Antony Tudor. Music by Kurt
Weill (selections from Die Dreignoschenoper). American Ballet Theatre.
World premiere, London Ballet (1938). In this comic ballet, a drunken Eng-
lishman must choose among three Parisian prostitutes. Video: Anthony
Tudor. A Dance Horizons Video. In a brief section Agnes de Mille ex-
presses her delight in the role of Venus. - The Moirai (1961). Music by Hugh Aitken. The José Limon Dance Com-
pany. - Diana and Actaeon, a pas de deux (1973). Choreographer, Rudolf Nureyev,
from the original by Agrippina Vaganova. Music by Cesare Pugni,
arranged by John Lanchbery. American Ballet Theatre. Video: World pre-
miere of Nureyev's staging (taped for television), NBC, 1963, with
Nureyev and Svetlana Beriosova. - Antigone/Rites for the Dead (1989). Film: Eclipse Productions. Amy Green-
field, Producer/Director. Various composers. Bertram Ross (Oedipus) and
Janet Eilber. - Persephone (1991). Choreographer, Ralph Lemon. Music by Anthony Davis
(Maps, Violin Concerto). Ralph Lemon Dance Company. The myth of Deme-
ter and Persephone. - Orpheus Portrait, a pas de deux (1991). Choreographer, Kent Stowell. Mu-
sic by Liszt. Pacific Northwest Ballet. - Nymphs and Satyr. Music by Howard Hanson, who from the score com-
posed a ballet suite (1979). The ballet was premiered by the Chautauqua
Ballet. The music, adapted from an earlier sketch for a solo clarinet fan-
tasy, reveals the composer's personal style of bucolic tone painting. The
ingratiating melody of the Scherzo originated in a tune Hanson impro-
vised as he sang to his Irish terrier Molly and offered her dog biscuits. He
provides a synopsis of the work in the notes to the recording (Bay Cities
BCD-1005): "Destiny moves the nymphs on a journey. As they travel they